Mohammad Taghi Iman; Elham Shirdel; Fatemeh Anjom Shoa; Hamid Shirdel
Volume 14, Issue 28 , September 2015, , Pages 203-226
Abstract
This research is to clarify the teenage girls' behaviors of tendency toward delinquency through social factors in Kerman. To do so, the social control theory of Hirsch has been used in the theoretical framework of this research. The independent variants of this research are social network, education ...
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This research is to clarify the teenage girls' behaviors of tendency toward delinquency through social factors in Kerman. To do so, the social control theory of Hirsch has been used in the theoretical framework of this research. The independent variants of this research are social network, education rate of parents and patterns of leisure. The dependent variant of this survey including 24 items in the form of the number of times willing to commit delinquency in their intimate friends and themselves has been evaluated. The method of this research is investigative and the statistical population is teenage high school girls in Kerman in 2014. The number of sample is 381 students and the data was collected through a questionnaire. The results of descriptive and inferential statistics obtained from the data using SPSS software show: A) A considerable amount of interest in delinquency behavior of teenage girls is seen. B) There is a direct and meaningful relation between the internet leisure, use of satelite, recreational leisure, modern music, sports leisure patterns of leisure and the girls' tendency toward delinquency. C) The pattern of social network, education rate of parents and Islamic leisure has a decreasing effect on the tendency toward delinquency. D) Performing the multiple regression analysis showed that only three models of leisure have effects on the intensity of the tendency toward delinquency and can clarify 23 percent of it. These three variants were: Changing patterns of internet leisure, Sightseeing and Recreational and use of satelite. Finally, social factor for example the education rate of parents, the lack of social ties in relations network of people and inexistence of correct social control in the leisure activities that lead the teenage girls to delinquency.